Everyone has that one sound that makes their skin crawl. Maybe it is a colleague who keeps clicking a pen during a meeting, or someone chewing loudly beside you on a quiet train. These everyday noises ...

Joey Brown is an interview reporter, editor, and lifelong gamer with experience in nearly every genre from space sims and MMORPGs to metroidvanias and city builders. He has sat down with industry ...

Jazz and hip hop get Katro Storm’s brushes moving. Another artist requires the repetitive sound of crashing ocean waves to work. A third, from the Bronx, needs to hear sirens, jackhammers, and the ...

Why do the harsh sounds emitted by alarms or human shrieks grab our attention? What is going on in the brain when it detects these frequencies? Neuroscientists from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) ...

The sounds, of lack there of, in an office can be distracting and annoying. A sound masking machine can help drown out unwanted sound or fill the void of an empty space. Review our list of the best ...

It has referred to body art, repetitive sound and last call. By Sarah Diamond In Word Through The Times, we trace how one word or phrase has changed throughout the history of the newspaper. In 1991, a ...

Since its start, “The Bear” has been lauded by restaurant workers for its realistic portrayal of kitchen chaos. The show relays how frenetic back-of-house operations can get, often through the sensory ...

Certain everyday sounds trigger intense emotional and physical reactions in some individuals due to abnormal brain connections between auditory and emotional regions. This condition, misophonia, ...

Neuroscientists have analyzed how people react when they listen to a range of different sounds, the aim being to establish the extent to which repetitive sound frequencies are considered unpleasant.